An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.

All organizations are merely conceptual embodiments of a very old, very basic idea - the idea of community. They can be no more or less than the sum of the beliefs of the people drawn to them; of their character, judgements, acts and efforts.

With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.

Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture.

We don't have to remain in this radically destructive mind-set and institutional-set. We can change, and the natural order of things could emerge in all of our societal organizations-government, commerce, religion-it's right there, waiting to happen. I often tell people that every mind is like a room in an old house, stuffed with very old furniture. Take any space in your mind and empty it of your old conceptions and new ones will rush in, good or bad. So change is more a getting rid of rather than an adding to or an acquiring.

Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.

It is not making better people of others that management is about. It's about making a better person of self. Income, power, and titles have nothing to do with that.